COMMENTS

this report (from "Defence for Children International, Palestine section", affiliated to Defence for Children International, see http://www.defenceforchildren.org/ ) mentions 24 cases of children (aged 13 to 17) shot in the leg, after warnings, "whilst collecting building gravel, about" 50 to 500 "metres from the border with Israel."

"collecting building gravel"?

isn't that another way of saying "digging holes 50 to 500 metres from the border"?

what else are border guards supposed to do when people are apparently digging holes near the border, in an area where tunnels have been used to kill and capture, and when warnings are ignored?

and why are the palestinians using their children to do this?

and why, when DCI international is campaigning for the rights of children (against slavery, against child labour etc), is its palestine section apparently approving of children as young as 13 to do this dangerous work?

The PSC out in force with more blood libels. The Palestinians use children for all manner of illegal practices includig using schools for the storage of ammunition, human shields, in at least one case as a suicide bomber (failed thankfully) and as in this case digging holes within close proximity to a dangerous border area. But of course their supporters will always moral invert the truth of the situation. Maybe Mary or suzanna would let us know if they had children whether they would allow them dig holes/play in close proximity to a military installation especially where warnings are in place that force will be used and the army has demonstrated that it will not hesitate to enforce those warnings. After the first incident occurred if you really cared for your child would you let him/her be i nthe area at all?

Mary and suzanna dodge the question - nothing new there.
Would you allow a child of yours to be put in harm's way like this? It seems th Palestinians consider this a fitting way to treat their children - would you?

Dodging the question Mary yet again - this is a closed military area who in their right minds would allow children to be there for any reason when they have been warned force will be used because likely as not the children are being used as human shields by adult terrorist as they have done many times in the past.

Suzanna read the linkhttp://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=4717926&page=1
and calm down - the children should not be put in harm's way if you really cared you would be urging your friends not to let their children be anywhere near the border but like them (there is no negligence the parents encourage them) you use the children cynically for propaganda purposes a severe case of immorality if ever there was one.

happygoldfish: suzanna, how do you say they should react when they see the beginning of tunnelling?

Mary in Brighton: I foolishly let my child play out after dark. She is abducte, raped and murdered. The murdere is absolved on account of my neglect.
Is that where you are seeking to take us Goldfish?

"I foolishly let my child go out burgling, or breaking into people's cars, after dark. He is injured by a householder or car-owner trying to stop him and using reasonable force. The householder or car-owner is absolved, not on account of my neglect, but because that's the law!. But I, and my child, are still at fault!"